1947 - 2016
David Bowie was an iconic British musician, singer, and songwriter, prominent in the music industry for over five decades. Known for his distinctive voice, eclectic musical style, and theatrical stage presence, Bowie was a pioneer of glam rock and a cultural chameleon who continually reinvented his image and sound throughout his career.
There's a terror in knowing what the world is about.
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.
Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
I still keep a suitcase in Berlin.
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.